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New Beagleboard and Timezones

Thanks to the folks at beagleboard.org, my shiny new Beagleboard has arrived! This is from the "Beagleboard Sponsored Projects Program" at http://beagleboard.org/contest. If you have an idea for a good project involving the Beagleboard, you can submit the details. Each week, two projects will be selected for a free board!

I've been looking into how to set the time correctly on my board, and in the process discovered a few details about time zones on Angstrom linux. By default, a basic Angstrom image doesn't include data specifying time zones, so will default to UTC time. To specify a time zone:

Install the timezone data package:
opkg install tzdata

Look in /usr/share/zoneinfo to find the appropriate zone, mine was Australia/Sydney

create a symbolic link to this file from /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney /etc/localtime

restart

With the correct timezone set, you can now use NTP to automatically set the correct date and time: